Horace Vernet

Horace Vernet (30 June 1789-17 January 1863) was a French Bonapartist painter during the early 19th century.

Biography
Horace Vernet was born in Paris, France on 30 June 1789, and he was born in the Louvre, where his parents had taken refuge during the French Revolution. Vernet became a well-known artist during the Bourbon Restoration era, when he distinguished himself as an ultra-Bonapartist artist whose depictions of the Napoleonic Wars and Emperor Napoleon I himself were heavily influenced by classicism. He served as Director of the French Academy in Rome from 1829 to 1835, and, during the reign of King Louis-Philippe I, he was commissioned to create works romanticizing France's colonial efforts in Algeria. During the reign of Emperor Napoleon III, Vernet's patronage continued, and he accompanied the French Army during the Crimean War and remained committed to depicting the realities of war in his artwork. He died in 1863 at the age of 73.